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BRIDLE BIT. No. 328,781. Patented Oct. 20, 1885.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

EDWARD W. JACKSON, OF MOUNT KISOO, NEW YORK.

BRIDLE-BIT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 328,781, dated October 20, 1885.

Application filed August 17, 1885.

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD W. JACKSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Mount Kisco, in the county of vVestchester and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bridle-Bits; and a I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertaius to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,and to letters or figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a representation of the invention, and is a perspective view. Fig. 2 is a detail view.

Thisinventionhas relationtobridle-bits;and it consistsin the construction and novel combination of parts, as will be hereinafter fully described, and particularly pointed out in the claim.

Referring by letter to the accompanying drawings, A and B designate the end plates or check-pieces of the bit, which is a doublesnaftle bit. These end plates are constructed to form upper and lower integral rings, 0 O and D D. In the lower rings a snaffle, composed of two parts, E F, is provided, and in Serial No. 174,631. (No model.)

the upper rings, 0 G, a three-part snaffle, H, or a snaffle composed of three linked rods, is employed.

The joints in the check-pieces do not sag, but encircle their bearings so that there will be no play at the checks but the movcmentin turning and working the joints. Thus it acts in a mouth spoke action, both bits having the power to control and guide the animal, and preventing touguelolling and side pulling and sore mouth, and can be used in general as a perfectly safe and powerful bit, having the amount of power the driver desires to use; also, the distance between the upper and lower points being such as to give union of action.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

The combination, with the check pieces having the upper and lower integral rings, of the two-part snaffle and the three-part snaffle,independent of each other, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

' EDWARD W. JACKSON.

Witnesses:

ALVAN J. ADAMS, SAMUEL A. KNAPP. 

